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An award winning front-line investigative news magazine focusing on human, civil and workers rights, issues of war and peace, Global Warming, racism and poverty, and other issues. Hosted by Dennis J. Bernstein.
We honor the new journalism: we’ll feature a new documentary by John Pilger on the expansion of US militarism on the island of Diego Garcia, entitled Stealing a Nation; plus, Flashpoints special correspondent Dahr Jamail talks about reporting from occupied Iraq; youth voices from Dheisheh refugee camp in Palestine; and the Knight Report.
The right-wing supreme court of Haiti overturns dozens of convictions of Haitian military mass murders and death squad activists, we’ll have a special report live from Port-au-Prince on the deadly implications of this breaking story, and we’ll speak to one of the lawyers who worked on what’s come to be known as the Robeteau massacre; … Continued
A former high-level DEA agent talks about government drug trafficking and the Oliver North connection; and we’ll be joined by the author of Drug War: Covert Money, Power and Policy, an encyclopedia on the history of government drug involvement; and the Knight Report.
Independent of London reporter Patrick Cockburn reports from Baghdad on the killing of 75 Iraqis by US forces at the Syrian border; plus, a free-wheeling discussion with award-winning investigative reporter Robert Parry on CIA-linked drug trafficking and the cover-up of the October Surprise; and the Knight Report.
On their Morning Edition show, NPR censors the killing of two Palestinian kids, we’ll have a follow-up report on the killings and look at the recent arrests of Pentagon officials releasing secret documents to American-Israeli lobby group AIPAC; also, the US military continues their torture cover-up with the dismissal of charges against Lynndie England; a … Continued
Has Reporters Without Borders become a front group for the US State Department? We’ll feature a breaking story on right-wing and State department funding of Reporters Without Borders; plus, at least fifty killed and three times as many wounded in northern Iraqi Kurdistan, we’ll speak with Patrick Cockburn of the Independent of London and Aaron … Continued
Helen Caldicott reports from a global UN conference on nuclear proliferation; also, immigrant California governor Schwartzenegger goes pro-vigilante; Iraq and Afghanistan still up in flames as a new government is sworn in; youth voices from Palestine; and the Knight Report.
Haiti’s imprisoned Prime Minister hangs on by a thread in the fifteenth day of his second hunger strike; meet the Bush family’s favorite terrorist; over a hundred people killed in Iraq over the last five days; youth voices from Palestine; and the Knight Report.
US-backed death squads, along with the United Nations, viciously attack and kill nonviolent demonstrators in Haiti, we’ll have a full report from Kevin Pina in Port-au-Prince; plus, we celebrate a hard-won victory in the Pepper Spray trial; a rundown of weekly news featured by the Palestine News Network; part two of an interview with former … Continued
